Evolution of heavy ion beam probing from the origins to study of symmetric structures in fusion plasmas

A Melnikov - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
The overview discusses development of the unique fusion plasma diagnostics—Heavy Ion
Beam Probing (HIBP) in application to toroidal magnetic plasma devices. The basis of the …

Equilibrium reconstruction in the Madison Symmetric Torus reversed field pinch

JK Anderson, CB Forest, TM Biewer, JS Sarff… - Nuclear …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
A non-linear Grad–Shafranov toroidal equilibrium reconstruction code (MSTFit) has been
developed for the Madison Symmetric Torus. This is the first such code applied to the unique …

Feasibility study of a Heavy Ion Beam Probe for the Thailand Tokamak-1

A Wisitsorasak, A Shimizu, S Sangaroon… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract A Heavy Ion Beam Probe (HIBP) diagnostic system can offer non-disturbing, local
measurement of plasma electric potential and various plasma parameters. This paper …

Diagnostics for radial electric field measurements in hot magnetized plasmas

AJH Donné, AV Melnikov, G Van Oost - Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, 2002 - Springer
Measurements of the radial electric field profile in magnetically confined plasmas have
yielded important new insights in the physics of LH transitions, edge biasing and/or the …

Heavy ion beam probe advances from the first installation of the diagnostic on an RFP

DR Demers, PJ Fimognari - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Heavy ion beam probes have been installed on a variety of toroidal devices, but the first and
only application on a reversed field pinch is the diagnostic on the Madison Symmetric Torus …

Initial measurements of plasma potential in the core of the MST reversed field pinch with a heavy ion beam probe

DR Demers, J Lei, U Shah, PM Schoch… - Czechoslovak Journal of …, 2001 - Springer
Measurement of the plasma potential in the core of MST marks both the first interior potential
measurements in an RFP, as well as the first measurements by a Heavy Ion Beam Probe …

Resolving small signal measurements in experimental plasma environments using calibrated subtraction of noise signals

PJ Fimognari, DR Demers, X Chen… - Review of Scientific …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The performance of many diagnostic and control systems within fusion and other fields of
research are often detrimentally affected by spurious noise signals. This is particularly true …

Исследования электрического потенциала термоядерной плазмы с магнитным удержанием

АВ Мельников - Computational nanotechnology, 2017 - cyberleninka.ru
В работе представлены результаты экспериментального исследования электрического
потенциала плазмы тороидальных установок для магнитного удержания …

Spectroscopic ion beam imaging for investigations into magnetic field mapping of a plasma

DR Demers, PM Schoch, RJ Radke… - Review of scientific …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
The trajectory of an ion beam as it passes through a magnetically confined plasma is
determined by the ion mass, energy, and charge state, and the magnetic field structure. In …

Heavy ion beam probe coordinate mapping and calibration at WEGA stellarator

Y Podoba, M Otte, F Wagner, L Krupnik… - Review of Scientific …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The heavy ion beam probe (HIBP) is an established nonperturbing diagnostic for high
spatially and temporary resolved measurements of magnetically confined plasma …